“Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”

Vol. I, ch. 9
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Source: A memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith

Source: Savonarola (1881), Lorenzo de' Medici in Act I, sc. i; p. 6.

Crotchet Castle, chapter IX. Though not named, the author under discussion is clearly Sir Walter Scott.

Source: Lud-in-the-Mist

The Education of Women (1719)

Source: Dance to the Music of Time

Source: The Complete Poems

Source: On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843), p. 105
Context: America has furnished to Europe proof of the fact, that popular institutions, founded on equality and the principle of representation, are capable of maintaining governments, able to secure the rights of person, property, and reputation. America has proved that it is practicable to elevate the mass of mankind, — that portion which in Europe is called the laboring, or lower class, — to raise them to self-respect, to make them competent to act a part in the great right and great duty of self-government; and she has proved that this may be done by education and the diffusion of knowledge. America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.